Mahnaz Afkhami

International Women’s Day of Solidarity (In Persian)

گفتگو با مهناز افخمی بمناسبت روز جهانی زن (VOA Persian)
On the occasion of international women’s day, Mahnaz Afkhami joins the show to discuss the meaning of the 8th of March as a day solidarity.

Betty Friedan, Mahnaz Afkhami and Iran (In Persian)

گفتگو با مهناز افخمی بمناسبت درگذشت بتی فريدن، فعال حقوق زنان آمريک (VOA Persian)

On the passing of Betty Friedan, Mahnaz Afkhami looks back on Betty Friedan’s visit to Iran in 1974, and their subsequent work together in the United States.

Women, State, and Society in Iran, 1963-1978

Interview with Mahnaz Afkhami, secretary general of Women’s Organization of Iran (WOI), 1970-1978, and Iran’s minister of women’s affairs, 1975-1978.
2003 / Foundation for Iranian Studies / Bethesda, MD
Gholam Reza Afkhami, ed.

Iranian women gained significant rights and became considerably more active and effective socially, politically, and economically between 1963 and 1978. Mahnaz Afkhami was secretary general of the Women’s Organization of Iran (WOI), 1970-1978, and Iran’s minister of women’s affairs, 1975-1978. In this book she discusses how women propelled the progress they made in Iran’s patriarchal society, how the government’s worldview, politics, and policies affected their progress, and how relevant to their cause was their presence on the international scene and…

Architects of Peace

Essay in Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images / Michael Collopy and Jason Gardener (eds.) / Also in Persian
A compilation of essays by 75 leading peacemakers – spiritual leaders, politicians, scientists, artists, and activists. Afkhami states that, “The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of wholesale destruction–but not the threat that is contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the 21st century.”

A Peaceful Revolution: Review of the Activities and Achievements of the Women’s Organization of Iran (In Persian)

In Iran Nameh / A Peaceful Revolution: Review of the Activities and Achievements of the Women’s Organization of Iran

Women’s Rights Gaining Attention Within Islam

The New York Times / By Barbara Crossette / Also in Persian
Individuals and women’s rights groups are applying pressure for change. They want the right to education, both secular and religious; they seek changes in economic practices to allow women to own and inherit property; they also want reform in Muslim family laws that often leave women at the mercy of men.

Faith and Freedom:

Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World
1995 / Syracuse University Press and I.B. Tauris / Edited

“A gripping combination of serious scholarship and popularising” – MESA Bulletin

Faith and Freedom is the first detailed study to emphasize Muslim women’s rights as human rights and to explore the existing patriarchal structures and processes that present women’s human rights as contradictory to Islam. Academics and activists, most of whom live in the Muslim world, discuss the major issues facing women of the region as they enter the twenty-first century. They demonstrate how the cultural segregation of women, and the monopoly on the interpretation…

Women and the Law in Iran (1967-1978)

1994 / Women’s Center of the Foundation for Iranian Studies / Bethesda, MD

A compilation with introduction; In Persian

Women and the Law in Iran (1967-1978) contains seven treaties and legal texts that were published by the Women’s Organization of Iran between 1973 and 1976 as well as the texts of laws and regulations…

Women in Exile

1994 / The University Press of Virginia / Charlottesville, VA

Edited and Prologue

“a sad, lovely, horrifying, heroic book.”– Women’s Review of Books

Women in Exile presents an intimate portrait of 13 activist women’s flight from oppression, and …